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DVD Victor/Victoria
Blake Edwards's delightful Victor/Victoria may be one of the last of the great, old-style movie musical comedies--it is so good, it was turned into a hit Broadway stage musical years later. And both versions starred Edwards's wife Julie Andrews (the former Mary Poppins) in the title role--as Victor and Victoria. She's a down-and-out singer who hooks up with a flamboyantly gay theatrical veteran (Robert Preston), and together they become the toast of 1934 Paris by dreaming up a provocative nightclub act in which Victoria assumes the identity of a man in drag. So, in other words, Andrews plays a woman playing a man playing a woman ... and that's only the beginning of the sexual identity confusions that provide the fuel for this splendidly classy slapstick musical farce. (Yes, it's all those things.) James Garner, as a Chicago club owner, finds himself strangely besotted with this stylish, androgynous creature--even though he thinks Victor/Victoria is a man. Legendary Hollywood composer Henry Mancini (a longtime collaborator with Edwards) won his last Oscar for the score; Andrews, Preston, and Lesley Ann Warren, as Garner's cheeky girlfriend, were also nominated. Musical highlights include Victor/Victoria's sizzling "Le Jazz Hot" (in which Andrews shows off her incredible vocal range); another showstopper for Victor/Victoria, "The Shady Dame from Seville"; Preston's witty ode to "Gay Paree"; Warren's hilarious burlesque number, "King's Can-Can"; and a charmingly casual yet elegant side-by-side number, "You and Me," done in a small club by Preston and Andrews in tuxedos. --Jim Emerson
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Very stylish comedy directed by Blake Edwards about a down-and-out woman (Julie Andrews) in Paris in 1934 who fakes being a man to perform as a female impersonator and get work. Robert Preston is great as her homosexual accomplice, and James Garner is the Chicago club owner who catches her act and falls in love with her (figuring out her ruse early on). Lesley Ann Warner plays about the dumbest of dumb blondes - and acts as the tension-reliever for the homosexual theme in the movie, to great effect. The whole movie is very polished and top-notch in every way. Henry Mancini wrote the musical numbers and won an Oscar.
A truly funny, remarkable film!
Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, James Garner, Lesley Anne Warren and Robert Preston have all outdone themselves here! Applaud, applaud.
Really funny comedies are hard to find, but not in this case. The situations, facial expressions and sidelines all work together well. From the opening scenes in a restaraunt to the finale with Preston doing drag, a definitive classic that none other holds a candle to!
This is a must have for anyone who enjoys a good, strong belly laugh. There are scenes here that wouldn't work anywhere else. And the score is wonderful. 'Crazy World' became a favorite of mine the minute I heard it and is well suited here.
Andrews turns in a tour-de-force performance alongside Preston. The two of them make a great comedic couple! Lesley Anne Warren deserves many, many cudos for her performance here... truly remarkable.
James Garner's charater is played well and with subtle humor as is appropriate.
Do not miss this one. Really the best of Blake Edwards' career!
Julie Andrews is at her peak of adorability in this enjoyable (and surprisingly sarcastic) spoof of the 1920s. It has every trick: occasional silent-movie intertitles, flapper lingo ("Oh, banana oil"), and a laughable plot about women being sold into white slavery by the scheming manageress (splendid Beatrice Lillie) of a Hotel for Ladies, aided by a cabal of wicked Chinese. (The stereotypes are bearable only if you remember this is a spoof of silent movie melodrama.) Even with able support from Mary Tyler Moore and James Fox, this is Julie's show; she plays to the camera with the collusion of director George Roy Hill, who's clearly smitten with her silly streak. The movie has an annoying tendency to spend time on musical numbers--a Jewish wedding, a vaudeville act--that don't serve the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Julie Andrews - James Fox Director(s): George Roy Hill DVD Release Date: Released the 03 June 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Fans of Julie Andrews will delight in this 1995 videotaping of the stage musical Victor/Victoria, based on the 1982 movie of the same name. The plot has been kept intact: an out-of-work British soprano (Julie Andrews) in Paris falls in with a down-on-his-luck gay man (Tony Roberts), who gets the idea to present Victoria as the world's greatest female impersonator, Victor. The plan is a phenomenal success until a Chicago mobster on vacation (Michael Nouri) sees Victor in a nightclub and falls in love--and refuses to believe that Victor is a man. Due to the needs of the stage, the musical doesn't have the snap, crackle, and propulsive drive of the movie, which is a sprightly romp; to make up for this, the story has been expanded (some might say padded) with extensive dance numbers... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Julie Andrews - Tony Roberts - Michael Nouri Director(s): Julie Andrews DVD Release Date: Released the 04 April 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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It's been years since Blake Edwards made a funny film, and this 1981 effort may have been one of his last consistent laugh producers. Richard Mulligan plays a Hollywood producer who realizes that his career may be over when the public sees his latest film: a big-budget musical that lands on test audiences with a thud. In a moment of madness, he hits upon the idea of reediting it to include soft-porn reshoots--including a shot of his movie-star wife (Julie Andrews), who has a squeaky clean public image, baring her breasts (which the squeaky clean Andrews actually does). Scathing in its satire of Hollywood numbskullery, the film features terrific performances by Mulligan, Robert Preston, and William Holden (in his last film). --Marshall FineMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Julie Andrews - William Holden Director(s): Blake Edwards DVD Release Date: Released the 04 June 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Director Martin Ritt (Norma Rae) helmed this offbeat romance that earned costar James Garner an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a widowed druggist who befriends a confused divorcee (Sally Field) and her son, who move to a small rural town to start over. The laid-back performance of Garner as a man finding love "for the last time in his life" contrasts wonderfully with Field's portrayal of a woman scared and unsure of what the future may hold for her, and the two of them together exhibit great comic timing. As well written and as deftly performed as any movie of its type, Murphy's Romance will rope you in with its winning style. --Robert LaneMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Sally Field - James Garner Director(s): Martin Ritt DVD Release Date: Released the 16 May 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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